I read an article in Smithsonian magazine that said the rules of English grammar we cherish and curse (sometimes in the same breath) come from a misguided attempt to impose Latin structure on a Germanic root. Well, bite my neck and call me Susie (as my grandfather used to say, and don’t ask me who …
Triple congratulations to Hector Timourian for his poem “The King”; a short story, “Coffee Brewing Trouble”; and a memoir, “The Legend of Enrique Santos” published in the Livermore Adult Education Creative Writing Group anthology.
More than a dozen CWC Tri-Valley Branch members have taken the annual National Novel in a Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge. Cooking, house cleaning and yard work will be ignored. Laundry bins overflow. The trash begs to be taken out. Our fingers fly over computer keyboards toward a common goal—50,000 words by November 30. For the past …
